'The Internet Of Things' Will Change Virtually Everything About How Large Companies Operatehttp://www.businessinsider.com/enterprise-growth-in-the-internet-of-things-market-2014-8/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:46:43 -0500Emily Adlerhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/541b196e6da811542abb3e14markm8128Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:42:06 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/541b196e6da811542abb3e14
"....Data security is also a factor....."
Understatement. I can't wait until Russian hackers invade my thermostat and alarm clock!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/541b12b8ecad04531a510224Doug in VirginiaThu, 18 Sep 2014 13:13:28 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/541b12b8ecad04531a510224
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ff0c1a69bedd14486b083dfamullarThu, 28 Aug 2014 07:01:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53ff0c1a69bedd14486b083d
British society, its political class and community leaders must share the blame for the "jihad generation" of young men and women joining the Islamic State terrorist organization, a former senior Muslim army officer has said.
Afzal Amin, who was chairman of the Armed Forces Muslim Association, a conflict strategist and a military adviser on winning "hearts and minds" in Afghanistan, has said young Muslims in inner-city Britain have been left disenfranchised by politics and let down by imams and other community leaders.
Amin, 39, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Dudley North, also called for troops on the ground in Iraq to combat the escalating threat from Islamic State (IS), arguing that the British Army, with years of experience in counter-insurgency in the Middle East, has the capability to defeat them.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdf012eab8ea8042a8e802famullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:49:54 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdf012eab8ea8042a8e802
“Congress would actually have to have a vote to authorize it and they would have to jack up the budget,” he said. “I don’t think the politics on this are at all clear right now and won’t be for another week or two.”
He added, “The money issue has not been addressed in the Congress at all.”
If the government finances this chapter of U.S. military intervention in the Middle East the same way it’s financed the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it will simply add the cost to the nation’s credit card. George W. Bush was the first president since World War II to use deficit spending to cover the cost of decisions to invade Iraq and Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
That added about $1.5 trillion in military costs to the federal debt over the subsequent 13 years – and prompted some liberal Democrats, including former House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin, to call for a special “war surtax.”
Related: Why The Pentagon’s New Spending Plan Is a Myth
The surtax would be “a percentage of your tax bill,” Obey explained in 2007, according to CNN. “If you don’t like the cost, then shut down the war.” The measure would have required low-income and middle-income taxpayers to add 2 percent to their tax bill, while higher income taxpayers would pay an additional 12 to 15 percent.
The idea never gained traction – and won’t this time either. Congress is in no mood to raise taxes before a crucial November election that will determine the political control of the House and Senate. What’s more, the cost of expanding military action against ISIS is unlikely to be onerous compared to the overall $4 trillion federal budget – at least early on.
“I don’t think you put on a surtax every time there is a short-term bubble in policy change,” Obey said in a phone interview Tuesday. “But if it were to go on for a significant amount of time, people ought to take a hard look at it.”
Obey added, “We’re going to pay a price for years because we didn’t have a war surtax to pay for Iraq and Afghanistan. But I think there’s probably a very large difference between the magnitude of the cost then and the cost now.”http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeed8eab8eaf73ea8e7fbfamullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:44:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeed8eab8eaf73ea8e7fb
The U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2014 will be an estimated $506 billion, a slight increase from the $492 billion projected in April, based on lower-than-expected corporate tax receipts, the Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday.
U.S. budget deficits are expected to remain less than 3 percent of GDP through 2018 but grow after that, rising to nearly 4 percent of GDP in 2022, CBO said. That is because revenues will grow only slightly faster than the economy and spending is projected to increase more rapidly, the budget agency said.
CBO said a substantial amount of slack remains in the U.S. labor market due to the lower participation rate and an elevated number of people working part time.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdecafecad048702b9b603famullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:35:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdecafecad048702b9b603
A World Health Organization (WHO) report on electronic cigarettes has come as a relief to EU lawmakers, who have received a great deal of criticism from users of e-cigarettes – so-called ‘vapers’ – since new restrictions passed into law earlier this year.
The WHO report backs the EU’s approach of regulating the devices as tobacco, even though they do not contain tobacco, and concludes that restrictions should be even tighter.
The vapers have argued that e-cigarettes are a valuable tool to quit smoking and that restrictions on the devices will have a harmful health effect because they will force people to go back to smoking cigarettes.
But the WHO report says there is no evidence to suggest that e-cigarettes help people overcome an addiction to nicotine. It argues that the devices should be treated as normal cigarettes because they are just as harmful, and should be included in bans on indoor smoking.
The report also casts aspersions on the idea that it is new, small and medium-sized companies that are marketing the products. Many small companies have been vocal in resisting any restrictions. But the report says that major tobacco companies are becoming increasingly involved in the sector.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeb75eab8ea1e33a8e7fbJulianClose_MICWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:30:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeb75eab8ea1e33a8e7fb
"Internet of Things" has to be the laziest name ever attached to a technology faux-craze.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fde7f86bb3f7a421c67084famullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:15:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fde7f86bb3f7a421c67084
Trying to ensure your employees are happy all of the time might not be the best strategy.
While the commonly held assumption may be that positivity in the workplace produces positive outcomes and negative emotions lead to negative outcomes, the opposite can actually be true in some situations, according to a new study from the University of Liverpool.
Researchers discovered that it can be good to feel bad at work sometimes, especially angry. The study found that anger doesn't always lead to negative outcomes and can actually be used as a force for good.
The study's authors said in some cases, anger can spur on good outcomes when it's motivated by perceived violations of moral standards.
For example, an employee could express anger constructively after a manager has treated a fellow worker unfairly, the study's authors said. In such cases, anger can help prevent these types of situations from repeating in the future.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e52617eab8ea384dc4ccd6stephen russellFri, 08 Aug 2014 15:33:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e52617eab8ea384dc4ccd6
Change production., schedules, programming, security alone
IE cybersecurity for products produced IE A-Z
My automated car "calls" home to fire up BBQ to grill meats enroute from store.
that comm nodes systemwidehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e12991eab8ea677ca9512apfretty1Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:59:29 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e12991eab8ea677ca9512a
Great article. The Internet of Everything as Cisco calls it is rife with potential. The way I see it, this evolution will ultimately serve as the springboard for on-going innovations.
Peter Frettyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e115d2eab8ea652fa95131Jean-Luc PicardTue, 05 Aug 2014 13:35:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53e115d2eab8ea652fa95131
In other words a complete control grid that locks people into a system where bending rules only so slightly gets you punished.